I had much more fun today penning a piece about sangria for my other blog, Le Food News, but the world continues to unfold in usual and unusual (in politics usual=unusual, n’est-ce pas?) ways and requires commentary.
The Iraqi commission is reportedly set to recommend a reduction in force in Iraq, while our president continues traveling [...]

Charles Rangel, one of the now-majority Democrats poised to take over Congress, has announced he will seek to reinstate the military draft once he assumes control of the House Ways and Means Committee. Of course, this honorable donkey never met a war he thought shouldn’t be fought, either on the ground or on principles, [...]

Should he, or shouldn’t he? Bush, that is, in weighing whether troop reductions or a complete withdrawal is in order in Iraq. Even many Iraqi leaders and insurrectionists publicly agree that the U.S. forces’ presence is making matters worse, not better, so that indigenous observation would seem to militate (pun not intended but [...]

On this day in 1789, President George Washington proclaimed a day of “thanksgiving” for the adoption of the Constitution that still rules our nation, although these days it is viewed through various prisms and feats of literary and legal prestidigitation that were not present back then. (Try reading the Constitution to find either “right of [...]

Good ol’ Ben had some fine points to make in desiring the turkey rather than the bald eagle as a symbol of the new nation. In essence, he saw the turkey as courageous but the eagle as a lazy loafer. He may have had a point, so in the aftermath of gobbling up [...]

Good ol’ Ben had some fine points to make in desiring the turkey rather than the bald eagle as a symbol of the new nation. In essence, he saw the turkey as courageous but the eagle as a lazy loafer. He may have had a point, so in the aftermath of gobbling up [...]

The historical “first” Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621 by 52 colonists, mostly Pilgrim women and children, and 90 Wampanoag “Indians,” who reportedly brought four deer to the feast. Little beyond these four deer was written down in accounts of the feast (of which only two scant references remain), but for sure turkey and cranberry and [...]

I have to agree with those who find this repulsive, as a home-style video that surfaced at YouTube shows a BofA employee singing (with all his heart and pretentious soul, one must add) a version of U2’s “One” that celebrates the merger of Bank of America and MBNA–at an official company function!
Tragedy and farce combine [...]

Gee, now we’ll never know if O.J. whacked his ex-wife and lover. I’ll have to go to my grave forever wondering. Meanwhile, we all wish Simpson luck in his never-ending quest to find the killers on the golf links of Florida.
Ol’ Ben certainly would’ve had a difficult time accepting something as bizarre as [...]

No, not James Bond, but watching the new Bond in the new Bond film, “Casino Royale,” afforded me an opportunity to view the trailer for May’s “Spider-Man III.” Somehow, I felt all was right with the world when that preview was shown.
Of all the super-heroes, Spider-Man has always been the one with whom I [...]